Global Education Management System, or GEMS Dubai, is a school operator based in Dubai but with schools around the UAE, Middle East, and further afield. GEMS have a few schools in the UK also? List of GEMS schools includes more details about the UAE schools. GEMS is part of the Varkey Group. They come in for their fare share of criticism for being more interested in profits than education. They’re not the only ones. Most schools in Dubai annoy students with too much work, parents with too much fees, teachers with too much work and not enough salary, and owners with not enough profit. GEMS deserve top marks for persistence in a business sector that annoys everyone.